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on March 1992A Committee of civilian experts, formed to assist the Coast Guard in developing regulations governing oil spill response plans for tank vessels, recently set the dates for future meetings over the next few months. Mandated by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, the committee, known as the Oil Spi
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on March 1992The container vessel, Santa Victoria, was recently launched at Flender Werft, Lubeck, for Ivaran Shipping AS, Lysaker, Norway. The godmother is Alejandra S. Robinson of Agencia Maritima Robinson SACFI, Buenos Aires. The vessel is the latest in a series of four (two for Offen and two for Iva
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on March 1992MTU North America recently announced the promotion of two employees—Jeb Berg to vice president customer services and John Shock to general sales manager— as part of a company reorganization implemented to improve customer service and the overall operation of the company. Ray Carrell, MTU No
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on March 1992The new Liebherr CBW Litronic deck crane seems to be in brisk demand in the ship crane market. According to the manufacturer, low overall height, slim line design and many additional features guarantee customer satisfaction. Numerous orders have already been placed with Liebherr-Werk Nenzin
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on March 1992Marine systems manufacturer Jered Brown Brothers recently announced its plans to consolidate all of its administrative, engineering, and manufacturing operations at the company's Brunswick, Ga., manufacturing facility. J e r e d ' s 220,000-square-foot Brunswick manufacturing facility is lo
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on March 1992For over 40 years Kuhlautomat Berlin GmbH has been a leading European supplier of refrigerating plants for the shipbuilding industry. The scope of delivery covers: marine cold-storage plants for airconditioned rooms and low-temperature rooms; refrigerating units for marine air conditioning;
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on March 1992Crowley Maritime Corporation has announced weekly containerized service to Curacao, N.A., with sailings from Jacksonville and Port Everglades/Miami. The announcement was made by Peter A. Baci, vice president, Caribbean Services. Mr. Baci stated that the service would operate on a fixed-day
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on March 1992Barracuda Technologies Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers and suppliers of structural polymer alloy foam core materials used in the construction of large FRP sandwich vessels, is expanding its engineering services group to the United States. The complete engineering service will
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on March 1992Only a very few LNG carriers remain in layup and of these, two are soon to be reactivated. Specifications for the reactivation operation of the two 122,250-cubicmeter LNG carriers LNG Lagos (ex- Gastor), and LNG Port Harcourt (ex-Nestor), which have both been laid up in Loch Striven, Scotlan
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on March 1992Watercom officials recently announced the availability of a new software program designed to electronically record and maintain business information on board boats. The new product, PC-TRAP, is user friendly, can replace hand written logs and can transmit information to shore side offices. PC
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on March 1992Seaward International, Inc. recently delivered nine 2-foot-diameter by 10-foot-long netless highcapacity foam-filled marine fenders to the Virgin Islands Port Authority. The fenders were installed at the Port Authority pier at Gallows Bay on the island of St. Croix, where they are used by Re
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on March 1992The development and marketing of corrosion-preventive coatings which are not only effective in protecting equipment but are also environmentally and ecologically safe has been a goal of Esgard, Inc. since its founding. The Lafayette, La.- based company developed its marine ballast and void c
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on March 1992The 96-berth 'E' module for the semisubmersible rig Polymariner was recently delivered after a construction period of only six months. It is a four-level, 39.4-foot high block with a base area of 39.4 by 60 feet and weighing only 260 tons. Low weight is inherent in the construction method de
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on March 1992The Service Company of Louis Rogers, Inc. (SCLR), a specialist in marine repair and maintenance services located in Port Canaveral, Fla., has continued to maintain its workload with the addition of two more dockside availabilities. The first was the USCGC Vigilant (WMEC-617) with a base valu
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on March 1992The Dutch heavy-lift specialist Wijsmuller Transport B.V. has signed an exclusive agreement with the Russian Baltic Shipping Company in St. Petersburg for the worldwide commercial management of two heavy-lift vessels, the Stakhanovets Kotov and Stakhanovets Ermolenko. Wijsmuller Transport no
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on March 1992Recent tanker model tests at the David Taylor Research Center in Maryland seem to favor the doublehull design, according to a U. S. Coast Guard official. The tests also cast doubt on earlier assumptions about the performance of the mid-deck tanker design. According to Joseph Angelo, Chief,
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on March 1992Bills legalizing gambling on U.S. passenger vessels and giving ocean freight consolidators more flexibility in fulfilling bonding requirements were recently sent by the House to the President's desk. It also approved and sent to the Senate a bill directing the Maritime Administration to scra
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on November 1991Fredeman Shipyard Inc. has appointed John W. Sansing general manager. The yard, which employs about 120 people, is located 17 miles north of Cameron, La., at the confluence of the Calcasieu River and the Intracoastal Canal. Mr. Sansing's shipyard experience includes six years with Ingalls S
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on November 1991A new fuel economy control system called Seapacer is being offered by KaMeWa AB of Sweden. The Seapacer optimizes fuel economy for a ship by controlling: (1) the propulsion setting—continuously adjusting pitch and engine rpm for maximum propulsion efficiency; and (2) ship speed and fuel cons
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on November 1991Smith Berger Marine, Inc., Seattle, Wash., has developed a line of chain stoppers designed for mooring loads up to the breaking strength of the chain. Designed to ABS, Lloyd's, or DNV standards, the new stoppers are intended for use on FPS and FPSO vessels. One of the features of this design